The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcom X
I grew up in a nameless small town that was destroyed by the russian war machine. When they came they destroyed anything they wanted to and killed anyone in their way. They destroyed half the town on a whim and killed anyone over the age of 30 so we wouldn't be a threat later. After that they took any food they could carry and burned the rest, leaving the town with a message we would regrow the provisions and provide food for their army or there would be wholesale slaughter and anyone who left would be slowly tortured and then killed.
6 years later, I turned 18. At my birthday gathering all of my friends came to the place I lived in and quietly celebrated with me. The only reason we were quiet is because the guards decided that parties should not exist for prisoners like us, only small gatherings were …show more content…
To the south there were grasslands as far as the eye can see and to the east was the largest city i had ever seen. As we started walking towards the city we noticed that we couldnt see the town from the outside, with the only indication that it existed was a sloped dirt colored wall with a dim light coming from the hole underneath it. But as we entered the city things changed very quickly. The bumpy uneven ground became flatter and made of pavement instead of sand, and small buildings became skyscrapers with large screens making up most of the siding. On those screens a constant feed of news came, however they said preposterous things such as the russians being wiped out and the russian controlled towns were all set free, even though I had just came from a russian controlled town. The news also said that any people claiming that they had come from a controlled town were to be reported for
Malcom X
I grew up in a nameless small town that was destroyed by the russian war machine. When they came they destroyed anything they wanted to and killed anyone in their way. They destroyed half the town on a whim and killed anyone over the age of 30 so we wouldn't be a threat later. After that they took any food they could carry and burned the rest, leaving the town with a message we would regrow the provisions and provide food for their army or there would be wholesale slaughter and anyone who left would be slowly tortured and then killed.
6 years later, I turned 18. At my birthday gathering all of my friends came to the place I lived in and quietly celebrated with me. The only reason we were quiet is because the guards decided that parties should not exist for prisoners like us, only small gatherings were …show more content…
To the south there were grasslands as far as the eye can see and to the east was the largest city i had ever seen. As we started walking towards the city we noticed that we couldnt see the town from the outside, with the only indication that it existed was a sloped dirt colored wall with a dim light coming from the hole underneath it. But as we entered the city things changed very quickly. The bumpy uneven ground became flatter and made of pavement instead of sand, and small buildings became skyscrapers with large screens making up most of the siding. On those screens a constant feed of news came, however they said preposterous things such as the russians being wiped out and the russian controlled towns were all set free, even though I had just came from a russian controlled town. The news also said that any people claiming that they had come from a controlled town were to be reported for